San Diego found a deadline fix at first base. The Pirates just turned it into a two-year plan.
The Padres didn’t need Ryan O’Hearn for long. But for a couple months, they needed him badly.
San Diego’s 2025 deadline shopping spree didn’t come with the kind of flashy, “break the internet” headliner fans love to argue about on the trolley ride down to Petco. It came with something more practical: a plug-and-play bat who could keep the lineup from flatlining whenever the opposing starter had a pulse.